Determination of annual value: higher of expected or actual rent, with narrowed vacancy test and specific exemptions.
Annual value is the higher of expected rent or actual rent received/receivable where let; the enacted text narrows vacancy relief by requiring that vacancy-related reduction make actual rent lower than the notional expected rent before annual value is fixed at actual receipts. Local taxes actually paid reduce annual value, unrealised rent is excluded subject to rules, stock-in-trade newly completed and not let enjoys two years nil annual value upon completion certificate, and owner-occupation yields nil annual value for up to two specified houses unless let or other benefits are derived.